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Written Question
Vetting: Standards
Thursday 1st October 2026

Asked by: Lord Lisvane (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average length of time taken to deal with a disclosure and barring service basic check application.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Disclosure & Barring Service publishes its performance against all levels of check on a quarterly basis at DBS dataset 1: DBS checks, the DBS Update Service, and disputes - GOV.UK.

For the most recently reported quarter, the average turnaround time for Basic checks is reported as 0.8 days.

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